Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter si
2. Contents iv
3. Figures vii
4. Preface viii
5. Introduction 1
6. Chapter 1 Childhood and Youth 5
7. Chapter 2 Precarious Existence in Smolensk 25
8. Chapter 3 Creativity and Danger 41
9. Chapter 4 The Literary Terror 59
10. Chapter 5 A Correspondent at War 73
11. Chapter 6 Vasilii Tiorkin 103
12. Chapter 7 After the War 127
13. Chapter 8 Novyi mir, 1950–54 155
14. Chapter 9 Achievement and Humiliation: Grossman’s Stalingrad 173
15. Chapter 10 Tvardovskii ’s First Resignation 189
16. Chapter 11 Interregnum: Tvardovskii ’s Personal and Public Crisis 201
17. Chapter 12 Simonov’s Novyi mir 221
18. Chapter 13 The Tragedy of Aleksandr Fadeev 233
19. Chapter 14 Tvardovskii ’s Return to Novyi mir 251
20. Chapter 15 Editing Novyi mir 277
21. Chapter 16 Ivan Denisovich: The Apogee of Novyi mir 301
22. Chapter 17 The Reaction Begins 329
23. Chapter 18 Open Conf lict 347
24. Chapter 19 Solzhenitsyn: Admiration and Ambivalence 373
25. Chapter 20 The Russian Problem 395
26. Chapter 21 Tvardovskii ’s Final Struggle 407
27. Chapter 22 The End of Tvardovskii ’s Novyi mir 433
28. Chapter 23 After Novyi mir 455
29. Bibliography 467
30. Index 481